Without being told, everyone should know that Dembélé is likely to win this ahead of Yamal. You don't need a visioner to tell you this. Balloon d'Or is organized in France and they have been looking for an opportunity to give it to someone who plays French league and lucky enough Dembélé is in the picture. He'll definitely win. Not only that he plays in the French league, he is also a France National, so there's no way he won't win.

But if you check the individual stats at the end of every match, Yamal beats Dembélé because he had hit 9 rating ahead of any player this season.

I started hearing the narrative of FTX refund for a long time, I didn't believe it will be successful. I had thought it will end up in a cock and bull stories. I am surprised and happy that you guys were refunded.

If I get you right, you had BTC in FTX when the hack happened. Now, you are paid back the value of bitcoin as at 18 or 20k. This should rather be a fortunate story or am I missing anything?

If you had 0.002 BTC then, FTX should also refund you 0.002 BTC now right?

Obviously, Liverpool overpaid for Wirtz. It is in the nature of Liverpool to spend extravagantly when they are in need of a particular player. I remember vividly the case of Nunez, after his transfer processes, his coach expressed surprise how Liverpool was able to pay that amount. He believed that Nunez was worth much less than he was bought. He promised to produce strikers that are better than Nunez in the same season and definitely will sell to Liverpool again lol.

I think it's time for Liverpool to probe their scout and transfer department. They could risk millions for unproven players but could not retain Mane because of salary increment demand.

PSG winning the champions league title wasn't a surprise to me. I never expected Inter to do so over PSG. If you are a good football analyst, you will understand that in the last season's European competition flight, there were outstandingly 3 well coached teams that participated. They are;

• Arsenal
• PSG
• Barcelona

These teams were well coached and any of them would have won the champions league. The reason Arsenal didn't make it beyond the semi finals was the absence of Party in the first leg and more so, Arsenal is known for obeying the law of diminishing return towards the end of every season.

If my memory serves me right, you were mentioned recently in the reputation board about something concerning merit abuse. A brief tour of your trust score reveals 2 -ve tags from DT members. These and more are pointing to the fact that you are not a good user or contributor to the forum. If this is true, your chances of getting unbanned is very slim.

Meanwhile, you could be lucky if you make a standard appeal with your evidences of positive contributions to the forum. This is your best time to show the forum the ways you have contributed to its growth and you might be forgiven.

This clause hooked me!
I am interested... Feel free to check my profile. Thanks.

The beautiful bald man is already cooking 
Are you aware what is going on in Liverpool with the likes of Wirtz coming into the team. Those guys will definitely do it again.

@Op, - tokeweed, can you now change poll in op. As a Manchester United fan, it breaks my heart.

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You can come up with a question like Will Arne Slot be able to defend the EPL title?

I acknowledge the fact that playing in Real Madrid is the dream of almost every player. But we should also acknowledge the fact that Real Madrid has this dangerous transfer strategy. I don't know if they send their agent/spy ahead to inform the concerned player not to renew his contract with his present club. They always come at a time that they will pay little/nothing to get the player or they'll have to wait a little to get the player for free. I consider that strategy dangerous and unethical.

@KTChampions, if there's any kind of regrets in the mind of Mbappe, it is not staying back at PSG for one more season, with fat salary and win the Champions league and definitely Balloon d'Or.

Who knows the amount of pressure, persuasion and money they put in this in order to get Ronaldo playing it. I was happy when I learnt that Ronaldo declined and acknowledged that he is aging and would not have to play every competition.

This is a total quest for more money and it will negatively impact the players when season resumes properly

Op, you do not need to know how to upload an image or add image to your post. What you need to know is how to use the search function at the menu bar. If you learn that, you must have solved 80% of your problems.
If you don't learn it, tomorrow you'll come here asking us how to add personal text to your profile.

Op, don't you think that wearing a paid signature to conduct your alleged experiment is unethical or cheating? You do not contribute to the community, but rather trained an AI to write on your behalf and you getting paid weekly?
Your experiment would have been sane if you were not getting paid.

For your question of if we can win this AI war.
I do not think we can win it. But I am sure something will have to happen in the nearest future. AI will be so abundant in the forum to the extent that human written conversations will be scarce. By this time, campaign managers will have to scan the whole profile of any user in order to be able to hire anyone whose profile is 95 to 100% human written.

Op: "Wouldn't it be better for us to have a particular section where members feedback about the forum are been given?"

Meta: Am I a joke to you?

Funny enough, when people talk about volatility, they focus on the daily and weekly timeframe. Check BTC on the yearly time frame and compare what a fraction of BTC was able to purchase 4 years ago and what same fraction will be able to purchase this year.

If you have learnt some basics of bitcoin, why do you feel that everyone (including the ones yet to learn the basics) is more experienced than you?

If you don't know how to keep the cricket safe and yet you own some, you might be right that everyone is more experienced than you.

To start with, when you make posts, try preview, read over again before you submit.

I strongly share in your sentiments. I think the glory days of Pep is gone. These names I am seeing in his transfer lists are not dreadful or scary. They will be watered down to ordinary players, just like what happened to Marmoush and even Haaland. Gone are the days presences were given to Haaland in any match.

EPL will be very tough next season and I am very sure that Manchester City is definitely going to struggle like the other teams. Liverpool still appears stronger than them and even Arsenal. If Arteta can go for a world class striker, this might be his year.

I am surprised that Liverpool who is always wages structural conscious will agree to this deal.
Well, Liverpool spend much on transfers and where they used to have issues is salary structure. I remember when they sold Mane because of salary review request and spent alot to sign Mane's replacement (Nunesz) who never lived upto expectations.

I will be interested to know how much Wirtz is going to bag weekly. Could he be the second man after Salah or VDK will earn more than him.

As a coach, you could be good at your job but when the management does not trust you completely to make some independent decisions pertaining players transfer and the use of money, it will be difficult for you to succeed.

This is not applicable to Pep Guardiola because he was given 100% right to decide which players to buy and most times given unlimited budget to work with.

There are some young coaches who are very good but they do not receive this privilege of signing whoever they want. Sometimes the management used to give them budget cap that they would work with and this poses some kind of restrictions to coaches. PEP is good but the truth be told that he doesn't face limitations in terms of capital and transfer choices

Football is more of a skill then luck. Although there is some iota of luck in football but skill rules.
I understand with you that people are over gambling because they think that their luck is very close and if they eventually gamble less, their luck will be cut short.

There are some games that the attacking team will hit the bar severally without scoring. It happens but it does not just happen so often. That's why I rate skill over luck in football.

Nowadays peace is hard to broker between friends, families and organisations, let alone to expect it to happen at the national or global stage so easily. Peace is priceless but you have to sacrifice much to gain it.

One thing about war is that it makes us hunger for  peace. If there is no war, we might not appreciate the essence of peace.